Director’s cut

so the past one month has been a great cinematic experience for me. I saw the works of :

Alfred Hitchcock, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan,David Fincher, Danny Boyle,Francis Ford Coppola
Guy Ritchie,Kevin Smith,James Cameron,McG,Michael Bay,Peter Jackson,Quentin Tarantino
Ridley Scott,Roman Polanski,Sam Raimi,Sergio Leone,Steven Spielberg ,Woody Allen,Stanley Kubrick
Woody Allen.

What amazes me is the vision all these film makers have even before the camera starts rolling. What we see on screen is just a culmination point or partial representation of the thoughts in their minds. Directors and scientists always seem to amaze me.

some of the greatest directors of all times. do check it out. (link)

smoke and soul

Just finished reading Dan Brown’s : The Lost Symbol. A very engrossing and entertaining book. In this book Dan Brown touches upon realms of spirituality; a radical departure from his previous works.

If the soul resides in the human body and departs as we die, reminds me of an uncanny parallel to cigarettes. Consider a cigarette as a human body. As it burns, it lets out fumes of smoke. Once all the tobacco and paper has burnt away all we are left with is a butt and ash. The soul resides within the human body as it constantly transforms due to the rigors of existence, once the mortal life has ceased to exist the soul departs the body to either make a transition to heaven/or mix freely in the air/or re-enter another object (the spooky theory) bones are all what’s left after the flesh has burnt/rotted away.

cigarette : human body, butt : bones, smoke : soul.    

of addiction

so my fb status msg reads “6 seasons of entourage, 4 seasons of himym, 2 seasons of big bang theory, 8 seasons of scrubs, 3 seasons of dexter, 2 seasons of californication, 3 seasons of 30 rock, 3 seasons of heroes, 14 days of non stop watching,one heat sink busted pc. totally worth it. Fall'09 here i come. :D”

Ok. I’ve reached addiction status. Reminds me of a quote from Shantaram  “Heroin is a sensory deprivation tank for the soul. Floating on the dead sea of the drug stone, there's no sense of pain, no regret or shame, no feelings of guilt or grief, no depression and no desire. The sleeping universe enters and envelops every atom of existence. Insensible stillness and peace disperse fear and suffering. Thoughts drift like ocean weeds and vanish into distant, grey somnolency, unperceived and indeterminable. The body succumbs to cryogenic slumber: the listless heart beats faintly, and breathing slowly fades to random whispers. Thick nirvanic numbness clogs the limbs, and downward, deeper, the sleeper slides and glides towards oblivion, the perfect and eternal stone.”

Life ain’t so bad

if you have something to laugh out loud about, at the end of the day :) Facebook fortune cookie says : “Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”